Al-Malik have-Sâlih Najm AD-DIN Ayyûb (1207 - 1249) sultan ayyubide of Egypt (1240 -1249), wire of Al-Kamel.

Biography

In 1240, it succeeds in Egypt his/her brother Al `Adil Sayf AD-DIN, deposited by officers Turkish who call it with the capacity. Being wary of the elements traditional of the army ayyoubide (Kurdish soldiers free, regiment of slaves Mameluke created by its predecessors like Salahiya of Saladin and Al-Kamel Kamiliya), it is surrounded by a guard mamelouke of its creation, quartered on an island of the Nile (Bahr the year-Nile), which gives him the name of Bahriya have-Salihiya what will give the name of Mamelukes Bahrites to those which will take the succession of the Ayyoubides.

It renews the treaty of 1229 with Richard de Cornouailles and restores with the Royaume of Jerusalem the area of Sidon, the Eastern Galileo with Tibériade, the country of Jaffa and Ascalon (1241). In 1247, it takes again Ascalon and Galileo Eastern. Master of Damas, it restores his suzerainty on Homs, fighting for the control of the Syria with his cousin, Master of Alep.

The French crusaders of Louis {{IX}} unload with Damiette the June 6th 1249, which is abandoned without engagements. The Ayyoub sultan, immobilized by tuberculosis, proposes in Louis to exchange Damiette against Jerusalem. Louis refuses to treat with a “infidel”. Ayyoub takes the offensive then. It is made transport in litter towards Mansourah, “the victorious one”, city built by his father Al-Kamel on the site of the franque defeat of 1221. It falls into the coma the November 20th, whereas the Francs, encouraged by the fall of the Nile, leave Damiette in direction of Mansourah. Three days later, Ayyoub dies. His favorite wife, Chajar AD-Durr, “the tree with the jewels”, a Armenian slave, gathers the familiar ones of the sultan and orders to them to keep silence on its death before the return of the heir to the throne, Al-Mu' adham, then in Iraq. The emir Kahreddin writes a letter in the name of the sultan to call with the Jihad.

After the Battle of Mansourah, the death of Kahreddin and the capitulation of Louis IX, his son and successor Al-Mu' adham will be killed by the Mamelouks in May 1250. The domination mamelouke in Egypt starts with the dynasty of the Bahrites (1250 - 1382).